Coffee and Haiku

Haibun (俳文)

  • On How to Tend to Wildflowers

    The smell is stronger than my feelings about eating animals. I quicken my pace to pass the meat shop before my gag reflex, both of my stomach and that of my mind, acts up. I squint my eyes to bar my mind from spinning up morbid images. I fail. Everytime.

    water from
    the butcher’s pail…
    red geraniums

    Written on September 27, 2026

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  • Moonlit Resentment

    I was looking at the night sky last night. Well, what’s left of it. Not being able to see even a handful of stars was unsettling; and the longer I sat in silence under the light-polluted sky, the deeper the resentment for modern life grew.

    eclipsing the moon…
    everyone else’s
    tall houses

    Written on September 25, 2026

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  • A Quiet Coexistence – a haibun chapbook

    A haibun and art chapbook that explores the coexistence of humans and nature in a modern context.

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